Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among ...

After all, they crucified Jesus for "saying that you are God" (see Luke 22:66-71). Blasphemy was as bad a sin as it was possible to commit, to those people. -"I am He," said Jesus on several ...

Read an excerpt from How Jesus Became God. In this book I have tried to approach this question in a way that will be useful not only for secular historians of religion like me, but also for ...

But Jesus is God-man, not God-Superman. He became one of us not to shame us for our doubts but to teach us how to doubt well, to doubt faithfully. And so we are somehow saved too by his doubts.

One statement to which respondents were asked to reply said, “Jesus was a great teacher, but he was not God.” Of the evangelical Christian respondents, 44 percent either somewhat or strongly agreed ...

A majority of Americans say Jesus was a great teacher and nothing more during his lifetime, which several Christian leaders say is evidence today's faithful are "drifting away" from traditional ...

When they’re not showing off their ridiculous white casts or Americanized religious themes, Jesus movies are overwhelmed by their self-importance. Maybe it’s time to stop making them.

Still, while claiming that Jesus was a particular human appearance of God, the early church did not look for descriptions or portraits of Jesus “from life.” In the earliest Christian images, Christ ...

Like it or not, Jesus was a liberal D. Allan Kerr Many things confuse me in this world, but one of the biggest is evangelical Christians who ally themselves with right-wing conservative politicians.

Yet both God and his son Jesus did not want to leave us "in our sin and separation." It was because of God’s "great love" that Jesus came to Earth for us "and died for us," he also said.